The CAD mailing list is being migrated to the SourceForge Mailman system.
Tentatively, users will be subscribed to the brlcad-news and brlcad-users
mailing lists to match the existing usage of the mailing list.
Cheers!
Sean

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:26:17 -0500
From: Lee A. Butler <butler@...>
To: cad@...
Subject: New BRL-CAD Release
I am very pleased to announce availability of Release 7.0.1 of
BRL-CAD. This is a developer release, not a production one. This new
release is not significantly different in function from the previous
release. However, there is one very big difference:
BRL-CAD is now an Open Source project.
This means no more license agreements and decryption keys.
BRL-CAD is being distributed under the terms of various licenses.
Source code is generally under the terms of the GPL and LGPL licenses.
Documentation is under the GFDL. Certain files are being distributed
under the terms of a BSD license. See the "COPYING" file and the
individual files for details.
In conjunction with this change, there is a new project website at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/
At this time, there are no file downloads available (such as binary
install kits). These will follow in the future. For now, access to
this release is strictly for source code via Anonymous CVS. To obtain
the distribution from the cvs archvie, first log in to the anonymous
CVS service:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...:/cvsroot/brlcad login
when propted for a password, simply press the Enter key. Then check
out the sources using the command below. Note that the "-P" option is
important, and may differ from the directions supplied on
sourceforge.net:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@...:/cvsroot/brlcad co -P brlcad
This should get you a copy of the source files. See the README file
for information about contents, installation, and support.
This mailing list will be moving to sourceforge as well. A separate
announcement will go out concerning the details.
There is now an IRC channel on the Freenode network devoted to
BRL-CAD. Join #brlcad on irc.freenode.net for questions and
discussions of BRL-CAD in real time. For those new to IRC, see
http://irchelp.org/
and
http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/ircprimer.html
for help getting started.
It is the dawn of a new age for BRLCAD. The future looks bright.
Lee A. Butler E-Mail: butler@...
Attn: AMSRD-ARL-SL-BE Phone: (410) 278-9200
U.S. Army Research Laboratory DSN: 298-9200
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5068 FAX: (410) 278-3663